10 Most Desperate Ways WWE Got You To Watch
8. Apologising For Being Dog Sh*t
The last refuge of the scoundrel.
WWE's perception was in the gutter in the latter part of 2018. SmackDown was a disaster of doppelgängers, RAW had been dominated by Constable Corbin's abysmal, oppressive take on a trope that had long since eaten itself. Ratings reflected the dirge to such an extent that WWE felt they had no other option but to acknowledge how sh*tty everything had become.
They could have quietly got on with the business of developing new stars consistently and with long-term conviction, but that was too much like hard work, so instead - in an infamous moment of fake self-awareness - the McMahon clan on December 18 took to the ring and outright said "We haven't been doing a very good job for you lately".
Not us, you understand. We're the f*cking t*ts.
It's that a*sehole Corbin's fault!
Boo!
Boo him!
Corbin was fictionalised as the scapegoat, who was positioned in the main event slot the very next week in a match WWE ran back on pay-per-view in 2019, a year that, naturally, was even worse than 2019.
This was WWE literally pulling the toddler trick of "I'll be better" before not doing a thing to improve their behaviour because they were only interested in getting out of trouble.